Photo: Jmaxx37 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hagerman has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Hagerman has 237 jobs, and 419 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% stay in Hagerman for work; outside it, Twin Falls is the main destination (14%, 28 miles). 5% of workers have no commute at all; Idaho has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hagerman, in a few figures
Half of Hagerman commutes less than 20 miles
About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who works in Hagerman, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 401 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 219 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Hagerman on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Hagerman work
Where Hagerman clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Hagerman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hagerman, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 237. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hagerman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Hagerman’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hagerman workers work from home, vs 13% across Idaho. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 484 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Idaho: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hagerman: questions
What is the median household income in Hagerman?
$59,808 (±$22,330) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,800 across Idaho and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hagerman?
14.3%, against 10.6% across Idaho and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hagerman?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Idaho and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hagerman work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Twin Falls (14%, 28 mi), Wendell (11%, 10 mi), Jerome (8%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hagerman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hagerman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hagerman
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.